Mikalai Yuryievich Zhukavets (Belarusian: Мікалай Юр'евіч Жукавец; born 13 August 1986 in Minsk) is a Belarusian windsurfer, who specialized in Neil Pryde RS:X class.

Zhukavets also trains for Moshvsm Sailing Club in Minsk under his personal coach and mentor Uladzimir Khaladzinski.

[1] Zhukavets made his debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he placed twenty-eighth out of thirty-five sailors in the men's RS:X class with a net score of 229.

[3] At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Zhukavets qualified for his second Belarusian team, as a 26-year-old, in the RS:X class by receiving an automatic berth from the World Championships in Cadiz, Spain.

Struggling to attain a top position in the opening series including his incomplete race on the eighth leg, Zhukavets accumulated a net score of 208 points to deliver a 27th-place finish overall in a fleet of thirty-eight windsurfers.